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I'm not sure why the article picks these 3 options as if that's it. An RPC API can happily exist over plain old HTTP/1 (no protobuf required) and it also doesn't mention the primar…

De-anonymization would take monitoring over a period of time, but it could definitely work. Take this scenario for example: a person of interest is in the area of New York on Jan 1…

For the previous 20 years I had no real routine other than wake>commute>work or wake>work if wfh, but over the last 2 years I've been more focused on my health. Every weekday I get…

I also hit the CloudFlare verification merry-go-round several times per day using Ubuntu / Chrome.

Putting the central in decentral since '22.

I had no idea this was a thing. How cold are we talking for this to be something that happens often?

Automating such a narrow edge-case seems totally pointless. A much more likely scenario is that your battery dies while you're out, in which case you're still screwed. A better tri…

While the breaking change in a Mongoid minor release is particularly egregious, let's face it - the real failure here is lack of sufficient tests. I would be very surprised if this…

It would be more interesting to see those numbers in square footage and not straight counts. I would expect the majority of the 'empty' homes are the £10M+ ones in Knightsbridge, C…

We use wkhtmltopdf on AWS Lambda and have had zero issues in production for the last ~2 years. We're generating internal owned documents (invoices, letters, paged forms, etc) so I …

NZ is there if you make your browser viewport big enough.

The benefit of something like Ring is that criminals will know what they are and that somebody has very likely just been alerted to their presence. I speak from experience when I s…

> 10) understand that “good enough” sometimes is all you need (still try to fix it later :) ) This is something most CS grads don't really grasp immediately, but in the real World …

The bigger issue is insurance. If you have stuff stolen and there's no sign of forced entry (home or vehicle) then your insurance company will likely be asking questions about how …

Exactly this. If sticker cost is your leading factor then these kinds of services can seem crazy, but when you factor in the real cost of self-hosting then it quickly becomes a no-…

A tonne of our (enterprise-ey) customers had such trouble trying to integrate into our S3 flow that we started launching VPS for each that abstracted it away into simple SFTP uploa…

Money laundering will likely be the main use case of this app.

It's really interesting to see $100M+ exits that have resulted in trivial sums for founders and early employees after multiple rounds of dilution and/or VCs with preferred shares t…

As others have pointed out, connecting to RDS from Lambda is actually pretty trivial by having them run in the same VPC. We actually came up against an issue where our Lambda funct…

I submitted this post back in 2015 and it's no less impressive now - I'd love to see some updated analysis now that automated trading is even more prevalent in btc.

...and yes I clearly should have written this in machine code and deployed to a Gibson. Thanks for the tips.

No I still have the code, just no commit history.

Just to clarify - I wasn't paying full instance prices. I was using spot instances which worked out around $7/mo each at the time.